The Way of the World for September 1973

The Way of the World for September 1973

I TheWay of the World Volume V, Nurpber 9 September, 1973 contenfS 3 Editorial: Meet the New "Way of the World" SERMONS 5 The Starting Point of Good and Evil Sun Myung Moon 20 Faith: Making the Invisible a Reality Takashi Oyama NEWS AND REPORTS ASIA 26 Korea: My Experiences in Korea Hal McKenzie 38 Japan: Japanese Leaders Visit America 42 Australia: Response Vastly Improved Carl Redmond NORTH AMERICA 48 The British Came ... And They Went Brian Wijeratne 54 New Properties 57 Coming Soon to America 58 International Bus Teams Launched 64 New Hope Comes to America 70 Americans Host Japanese Students 73 Heavenly Fund Raising John Hessell and Paula Grey EUROPE 78 Germany: "The Times They Are a'Changing" Annemarie Manke 80 Austria: 20 Prepare for American Mission Julia MittermUller 82 Sweden: Bookstand Attracts Passersby Friedhilde Biichle Continued ... 83 Finfand: ale of a Little Town Virpi Uuskoski 84 England: Poem Rosemary Lloyd Kirk THE WORLD RELIGION 85 The Late Great "Late Great Planet Earth" Joy Schmidt 100 The Gnostic Challenge to Christianity Joy Schmidt 102 Russian Prophet Berdyaev Rev. Royal Davis 106 Trends Among Fundamentalists Elmer L. Towns 114 Religion is a Matter of Love Interview with Martin Lonnebo, Th.D. by Nils-Costa Eckman 118 Spot Checks CULTURE 120 Poe'try from Underground Excerpts from "Russia's Underground Poets" SCIENCE 128 Unified Science: Harbinger of a Scientific Revolution 129 Part I: A New Paradigm Hal McKenzie 137 Part II: A Unified Field Theory Glenn Strait ECONOMICS 142 It's a Shrinking World POLITICS 146 Books at the Rising Tide Bookstore 149 The Moral Society Gary Jarmin STAFF: Editor in Chief: Mrs. Rebecca Salonen. Editor: Joy Schmidt. Advising Editor: Hal McKenzie. Art Director: Gil Roschuni. Composition: Ann Bowser. Production Manager: Justin Fleischman. Printing: Ken Pope, Roger Hellman. Mailing: Richard Copeland. Contributing Editors: Rev. Royal G. Davis, Glenn Strait, Louise Berry. PHOTO CREDITS: Hal McKenzie; pp. 7,13,27,64,146. Ken Weber: pp. 8,9, 114, Wolfgang Waldner: pp. 58,65,84. NASA: pp. 85-97,142. Korean Ministry of Culture and Information: pp. 30,33,34. Sotheby, Parke, and Bernet, Inc.: p. 54. John Hessell: pp. 74,76. Bob Armstrong: p. 75. Published monthly by the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, 1365 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. (202) 722- 0968. eaitorial Meet the New Way of the World Greetings from Washington! same, but on a larger scale. We As you can see in this month's pray that our Father can speak issue, we have great plans for to millions of people through The Way of the World. The these pages, revealing the way new arrangement of the con­ that He wants mankind to go. tents is designed to give our To fulfill this ambition, WW readers a clearer, more com­ must reach new levels of qual­ prehensive view of where the ity and achievement. Even­ world is going. Time, News­ tually we should have branch week, and the New York Times offices in all the major capitols \ are influential world publica­ of the world with family cor­ tions, but how many are look­ respondents aggressively gath­ ing at the world from God's ering news from evety comer point of view? Too many of the globe. We plan to have publications are playing the contributing editors, knowl­ "Devil's Advocate" by empha­ edgeable in each of the major sizing the seamy side of world fields of human endeavor (Re­ affairs. We want WW to be ligion, Culture, Politics, Eco­ • God's Advocate-to view the nomics, Science), regularly sub­ world with the same love and mitting news and articles in hope as our Heavenly Father, each major field. We want to and be His vehicle for spreading expand our circulation to em­ the truth. brace conscientious people of Whenever we witness, we all backgrounds who can find usually pray for God's Spirit to in our publication a source of speak through us so that we information, inspiration, and can be a mediator between God guidance which can help them and the people we meet. Our throughout their lives. In short, hope and prayer for WW is the WW can no longer be just an 3 internal "chur~h" magazine. in mind: After all , our church exists not First, quality is more impor­ for itself, but for the world-the tant than ever. All material world that God loves so much should be considered in the that He sent to it His only Son. light of how it will help all New Policy. Because of mankind. 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With the new tation to all Family members format and technique, how­ who request them with the ever, there are several things approval of their national our correspondents must keep church leader. • 4 sermons '91 The Starting Point of Good and Evil by REV. SUN MYUNG MOON It is difficult for us to define exactly what is good and what is evil. As we have seen through human history, a thing was called good if it was in conformity with the idea or the philosophy of the age, or else it was thought to be evil. More specifically, for example, if and when one who has made a promise breaks a promise or fails to carry it out, the other would call it bad or evil. The individual would call some­ thing good when he gains something and causes himself This sermon was given plus, or bad if he loses some­ on June 24, 1973, at thing causing himself minus. Belvedere International When we ask ourselves if it is Training Center. really good when something ' 5 causes us profit or bad when human fall could not be a it causes.us minus, then we are fundamental one-even if we not sure because the standard do find a better standard of of profit or loss varies accord­ good and evil in the democratic ing to the individual. When we world, where people believe in compare the conditions in the God. You are not the starting Communist world with the point of good and evil; and conditions in the democratic neither am I. Then, what is world, religion is not admitted the starting point of good and in the Communist world where­ evil, and where is it? as it is admitted in the demo­ The starting point of good cratic world. We can safely and evil was Adam and Eve, . say that the standard of good the first human ancestors. and evil in the Communist Again, it has something to do world is different from that in with God. Originally the re­ the democratic world. Roughly lationship between God and divided, there are two main man is that between the ideological blocs in the world; Creator and the created, or the the Communist world and Master and servant, Father and democratic world. But even son and, in general, that be­ in the democratic world the tween subject and object. In standard of good and evil can no way is man the subject vary according to the nation being in his relationship with and to the view of life of the God. Man is the result of people. Then, what is the God's creation. Right from origin of good and evil? It is the beginning man was not fundamental to clarify at what born out of his own accord. point good and evil started. We were born from the moti­ The starting point of your vation of another existence, life is your parents; the start­ which was God. Therefore, it ing point of your parents are is clear enough that we are not your grandparents, and so OQ. the subject, but are in the When we trace back our human position of object to God.

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